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Presidential Retribution (Executive Watch)

Trump's Commerce Department Threatens to Seize Harvard’s Patents that it Claims the University Derived from Federally Funded Research
Donald Trump is abusing every tool of the vast power of the federal government in his attempt to make the universities personally subservient to him.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Allies in Congress Push For an Investigation Into Former Special Counsel Jack Smith to Help the President Carry Out His Retribution…
Donald Trump has promised retribution against his political opponents, and now his congressional allies are helping him deliver it, pushing for an…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Illicit Threat to Jail Obama Is Meant to Rally His Supporters Around Bogus Prosecutions of Political Opponents
Having claimed absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for himself, Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about arresting and jailing former…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Abruptly Fires Former FBI Director James Comey's Daughter, a Federal Prosecutor Who Worked on Epstein-Related Cases
Trump’s appointees have stoked expectations that they will release information about Jeffrey Epstein—a notorious abuser and procurer of underage…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Digs Into Schiff's Financial Records and Threatens to Prosecute the Senator on Dubious Grounds as Payback for Impeachment
Donald Trump has promised retaliation against his political opponents, and one of his chief targets is Sen.
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Robert Tracinski
The Administration's War on Civil Service Protections Is Continuing Unabated in a Bid to Stack Executive Agencies with Trump Puppets
One of the triumphs of late 19th-century politics was the reform of the civil service to eliminate the politicized “spoils system” and establish…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens to Denaturalize Longtime Critic Rosie O'Donnell, a Native-Born U.S. Citizen
One of the rules of a free society is that citizens decide who their leaders are; the leaders do not arbitrarily decide based on whim who is or isn’t a…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Retribution Agenda Gets Underway With Criminal Referrals Against Officials Who Investigated Him
Donald Trump has been threatening to open investigations of his critics and political enemies, but Trump says a lot of things that no one ever follows…
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Robert Tracinski
Paramount Shamelessly Signs Up to Toe the Administration's Line, Capitulating to Trump's Corrupt Shakedown
Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, has capitulated in a bogus lawsuit filed by Donald Trump, agreeing to pay a $16 million bribe to his…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens to Arrest, Denaturalize, and Deport New York's Democratic Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani
An immigration crackdown is emerging as the main instrument Donald Trump is using to impose a police state on America, complete with the by-now-routine…
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Robert Tracinski
In a Classic Authoritarian Move, Trump Threatens to Crush Musk if the Tech Tycoon Funds Democrats Now
The political break between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has had its predictable outcome.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens to Scrap Columbia's Accreditation After the University Capitulated to His Previous Demands to Fight Campus Antisemitism
Columbia University led the way in caving in when Donald Trump began threatening it with the loss of government funds.
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Robert Tracinski
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